[Samba] linux -> windows special characters in filenames problems

[Kaleb Harper]

I just tried 'mangled names = No', it made the directory names appear
properly, but when I try to open the directory, I get an error message that
it can't access the folder. So I assume the only other way is going to be to
somehow remove/change the ' : '. Any suggestions on how to do this would be
helpful. If it's doable inside of Samba, that's great, if not, I'm not
opposed to putting some kind of shell script on a cron to just go thru and
rename everything with bad characters, but I'm afraid I don't know how to do
that either :)



On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Evans, Bill <bevans at fhcrc.org> wrote:

> Try setting this in the share section in smb.conf
>
> mangled names = No
>
>
>
> Bill Evans
>
>
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> Kaleb Harper
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> Subject: [Samba] linux -> windows special characters in filenames
> problems
>
> I'm running Samba 3.32 on my linux server to share files with the
> windows
> computers on the network. My problem is that windows doesn't support
> some
> special characters in filenames, like ' : ', that linux has no problem
> with.
> So something (not sure if it's Samba or windows) is mangling
> directory/file
> names containing that character into 8.3 names, which makes it very
> difficult to know from windows what's in the directories; I'm having to
> open
> each directory to see the contents, which is quite an annoyance. Here's
> a
> couple of examples of how it's mangling directory names:
>
>
> 'this: is a test'    is getting turned into        'THUKO5~M'
> 'this: is another test'        is getting turned into        'TPYQ1X~Y'
>
>
> Since I suspect there's not an easy way to get windows to understand the
> ' :
> ' and various other characters that it probably doesn't understand
> properly,
> I was hoping there was a way to change the mangling to something more
> readable. I don't care if it removes the ' : ' completely, or changes it
> into some other character, I just want to be rid of the 8.3 names. I'm
> hoping that it's something that can be done from Samba so I don't have
> to
> reconfigure several windows computers, but I'll do whatever it takes if
> I
> have to :)
>
> I appreciate any help you all can give me.
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